AI-assisted research summary: This provision puts Juneau as the state capital, requires a commission to be established to calculate relocation costs, and allows relocation spending only after statewide voter approval of a bond issue.
Chapter 06. Capital. Sec. 44.06.010. Site of capital. The capital of the state is at the city of Juneau, Alaska. Sec. 44.06.050. Purpose of AS 44.06.050 44.06.060. The purpose of AS 44.06.050 44.06.060 is to guarantee to the people their right to know and to approve in advance all costs of relocating the capital or the legislature; to insure that the people will have an opportunity to make an informed and objective decision on relocating the capital or the legislature with all pertinent data concerning the costs to the state; and to insure that the costs of relocating the capital or the legislature will not be incurred by the state without the approval of the electorate. Sec. 44.06.055. Relocation expenditures. State money may be expended to relocate physically the capital or the legislature from the present location only after a majority of those voting in a statewide election have approved a bond issue that includes all bondable costs to the state of the relocation of a functional state legislature or capital to the new site over the twelve-year period following such approval. The commission established in AS 44.06.060 shall determine all bondable costs and total costs including, but not limited to, the costs of moving personnel and offices to the relocation site; the social, economic, and environmental costs to the present and relocation sites; and the costs to the state of planning, building, furnishing, using, and financing facilities at least equal to those provided by the present capital city. Sec. 44.06.060. Commission. The legislature shall establish a commission composed of nine members, including a chairperson and two persons from each judicial district, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature, to determine the costs required by initiatives or legislative enactments authorizing relocation of any of the present functions of state government. Secs. 44.06.100 44.06.299. Capital relocation, expenditures, planning. [Repealed, § 1 ch 54 SLA 1981.]